Carrier
The Freightgate Universe platform for carriers has been the core market. Driven by the complexity of servicing many shippers, importers and exporters using many different modes of transportation, the logistics service providers have long recognized the value of hosted (aka Cloud) solutions. Many of the worlds biggest 3PLs have entrusted mission critical data to Freightgate for more then a decade. Find out what you can gain by joining our family of happy customers.
As a carrier in today's fast paced global economy, you know how important it is to have timely and accurate information at your finger tips. Shippers are becoming more sophisticated and demanding more and more for less and less. It's no longer enough to move goods reliably at a reasonable rate. Today's carrier must offer value added services, state of the art information technology, transparency of underlying costs and a highly competitive rate in order to keep existing business, much less attract new. And in this age of global RFPs, the carrier that can respond quickly, accurately and competitively in the prospective customer's preferred manner has a leg up on winning the lion's share of opportunities.
Freightgate fully understands this and has shaped our solutions accordingly - to best align with the major challenges facing carriers in the current market.
Performance Management
Automated monitoring enables agile human response
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.
- Harold Geneen
This simple truth is why Freightgate® built end to end collaborative visibility into the Freightgate Universe, the industry leading supply chain and logistics management platform.
The question is not whether unplanned events will occur with the potential to disrupt your customer’s value chain. Rather, when the inevitable surprise occurs, how quickly will you know, how will your customer learn of it, and how agile will your organization’s corrective response be? Mr. Geneen knew that his customers were looking for real performance, and so are yours.
But agility in the information age requires world class technology tools, and that’s where we come in.
I-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
I-Trek! enables you or your customers to:
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators specific to your business
- Escalate issues to the appropriate parties before they become problems
- Free your human resources to think, plan and respond, rather than manually monitor
- Prioritize opportunities
- Hold all value chain stakeholders accountable – both external and internal
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Pay-Trek! brings freight audit and payment to the Freightgate Universe platform, closing the loop in the management lifecycle. Eliminate billing disputes and get paid faster. By making the tool available to your customer they, like you, can also audit steamship line bills where they have direct contracts in place.
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Tariff-Trek! dynamically provides optimized mode, carrier and route options for shipment execution. But shipping points, whether internal or 3rd party, can sometimes stray from the optimal selection, adding cost to your customer’s bottom line. Even if these decisions are for legitimate reasons, wouldn’t your customers like to be aware of how often they happen, why and what they cost? With Tariff-Trek! they can, and so can you.
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Value Chain Collaboration
The days of shoving cost over the fence are gone
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
Coach Lombardi passed away not long after uttering those words, but their meaning is not lost on us today. Globalization and stretched value chains have placed a much higher premium on collaborative relationships than existed just a few decades ago. Where a cross-state phone call to a supplier might once have fixed a problem, today virtually the entire globe relies on the inter-connective power of the Internet just to conduct routine business transactions.
Freightgate® leverages the Internet’s power to enable you, your suppliers, channel partners and customers to collaborate to mutual advantage across the entire value chain. These advantages can come in the form of:
- Better visibility and scheduling
- Reduced cycle times
- Lower cost per unit
- Improved S&OP
- Higher inventory turns
- Lower labor cost
- Better facility utilization
I-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
I-Trek! enables you or your customer to:
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators specific to each party
- Escalate issues to the appropriate parties before they become problems
- Free human resources to think, plan and respond, rather than manually monitor
- Prioritize and communicate opportunities
- Hold all value chain stakeholders accountable – both external and internal
- Monitor fulfillment performance
- Drive out unplanned costs such as demurrage and detention
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Transportation Management
Perfect execution – nothing less will do in today’s market
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
- William A. Foster
How to achieve that perfect delivery – not some or most of the time, but every time? Just as importantly, can you fully account for and properly allocate all of the associated costs based on the Incoterms?
As a carrier in today’s increasingly dynamic market, these are among the many demanding questions your customers are asking. And in return for their solid customer loyalty, they expect timely and accurate answers.
Freightgate® helps you answer these and many other important questions with the TMS capabilities built into the Freightgate Universe platform. With this fully closed loop solution you or your customer can for example:
· Consolidate orders
· Build loads
· Optimize routes
· File rates with the FMC
· Maintain end to end visibility
· Collaborate with other stakeholders
· Audit and pay the bill when it arrives
Tariff-Trek! provides the vital transportation and logistics options, along with their attendant costs, to the optimization. This truly dynamic tool puts expert decision support power at the operations desk level.
For your customers, this may mean accessing their own rating and routing options and then booking on-line. Maybe they have a new customer and need to request a quote to a destination where no existing rates are established. Or your competition is beating on their door, prompting them to request an amendment so that you can keep the business while they remain competitive.
Internally, your sales and operations teams will enjoy the power and flexibility with which Tariff-Trek! handles buy/sell rates and manages the quotations generated from those rates.
Learn more about Tariff-Trek!
I-Trek! was the first end to end Logistics Cloud visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
I-Trek! enables you or your customer to:
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators specific to the business
- Escalate issues to the appropriate parties before they become problems
- Free human resources to think, plan and respond, rather than manually monitor
- Prioritize opportunities
- Hold all value chain stakeholders accountable – both external and internal
Learn more about I-Trek!
Pay-Trek! brings freight audit and payment to the Freightgate Universe platform, closing the loop in the management lifecycle. Eliminate billing disputes and get paid faster. By making the tool available to your customer they, like you, can also audit steamship line bills where they have direct contracts in place.
Learn more about Pay-Trek!
FMC-Trek! completes the critical compliance component for NVOCCs. Fully integrated with Tariff-Trek! it automatically checks for conflicts on quotes accepted by your customers and lets you seamlessly file them directly with the FMC.
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Global Sourcing Management
Deciding where to source is just the beginning
The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
- Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
“Global sourcing is unavoidable in today's flat world, but it's a highly complex undertaking. Strategic sourcing demands that companies align what the customer wants, what's best for the business, and what's needed to get the supply. And they need to do this while dealing with the inherent intricacy of navigating global suppliers, inventory, cultural differences, currency, time zones, connectivity, language, and supply chain requirements. It can't be done without help.”
Source: Supply Chain Management Review
We at Freightgate® could not agree more, so the help you and your customers seek is built into our Freightgate Universe platform. From what if scenario analysis, to PO management, to global RFQ management, along with collaborative monitor and control functionality, we take the mystery and complexity out of global sourcing.
WISA provides what-if-scenario-analysis in order to satisfy multiple competing constraints such that you can delight your customer while minimizing your cost. It replaces hopeful guesswork with reliable planning.
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PO-Trek! was the first end to end Cloud Logistics PO visibility solution to hit the market. It remains the most comprehensive collaboration and performance management tool available today.
PO-Trek! enables your customers to:
- Maximize end to end PO visibility
- Manage – by exception – overseas suppliers. As the end to end provider, this provides you with additional revenue opportunities for the hands on component of the value added service.
- Collaborate across all stakeholders
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For your customers, GTM-Trek! automates and streamlines the procurement of global transportation services to most efficiently and effectively align with your global sourcing strategy. Often overlooked in the past, today’s ever rising fuel costs make this a critical component of the analysis.
For your internal sales team, GTM-Trek! is an invaluable tool for responding to RFQs from existing customers to keep their business and, just as importantly, to respond to and win new business from prospective customer RFQs.
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Demand Chain Planning
Time – Cost – Quality: The never ending conundrum
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
An order comes in, your customer produces the item in 4 locations on 3 continents and has 2 delivery channel options. What should he do? Where should she produce it? How to get it there and how long will it take? Now imagine 10,000 orders for 1,000 different skus and, oh by the way, the customer just turned to you to help answer all of those questions….
Can you do it? Freightgate® understands that your business depends on being able to handle those questions and many more for your customers. Which is why we built the Supply Chain Planning tools you need into our Freightgate Universe platform – tools that enable your customers to source and deliver more efficiently and economically. For instance, they can:
· Optimize sourcing decisions
· Reduce cost of goods sold
· Route based on lead time or cost constraints
· Track and analyze yield
WISA provides what-if-scenario-analysis in order to satisfy multiple competing constraints such that you can delight your customer while minimizing your cost. It replaces hopeful guesswork with reliable planning
Learn more about WISA
Tariff-Trek! provides the vital transportation and logistics options, along with their attendant costs, to the optimization. Due to silo responsibilities and incentives in many of your customers’ enterprises, these are often overlooked when making sourcing decisions – with potentially detrimental results for their business and yours.
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